Monday Morning Radio

This week host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart features a Best of Monday Morning Radio doubleheader dating back to April 2012, when in separate interviews, he spoke with two small business all-stars, Tom Ziglar and Brad Kriser . Tom, the son of the incomparable Zig Ziglar , discusses his book, Born to Win: Find Your Success Code , co-written with his father just months before the legenda...

Franz Owen "Frank" Armbruster was the most colorful guest that host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart ever interviewed. Literally.  Joining Dean in his Denver radio studio in 2013, Armbruster, an extraordinary inventor, came dressed in a furry pimp hat braided with a floral lei, tie-dyed suit, matching rainbow-colored shoes, candy-striped socks, and a bushy, all-white Santa Claus beard. 83...

Some people call it the "Quarantine 15," others the "Covid 19." Regardless of how they refer to it, they're talking about the weight gain that 61% of Americans say they put on since the coronavirus pandemic began. Well before coronavirus, inventor Paul Francis figured out a way that anyone, anywhere can easily get fit, even on the International Space Station. Paul's OYO Personal Gym uses resistanc...

Lovers of great literature will love this week's reminiscence with Bel Kaufman , the granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem , best known for his many stories about life in the shtetl, including one that was adapted as the musical Fiddler on the Roof . Aleichem died in 1916 and Bel died in 2014. But Monday Morning Radio Host Dean Rotbart and his son, Maxwell , interviewed Bel, then 102 yea...

Does the name Beth Harmon sound familiar? The fictional Beth, an orphan, is a chess prodigy who captures the hearts of viewers and earns the world chess championship crown in the incredibly popular 2020 Netflix miniseries, " The Queen's Gambit ." Elliott Neff is a real-life Chess Federation National Master, who helps others, especially young and disadvantaged people, discover valuable life lessons...

Did you know that older entrepreneurs are more successful than younger ones? Or that many of the best entrepreneurs never set out to launch independent businesses? Syracuse University Professor Carl J. Schramm knows both from personal experience, and because he has spent a lifetime as an evangelist for entrepreneurship, including heading a $2 billion private foundation dedicated to helping busines...

Daniel Burrus has 1.2 million followers on LinkedIn , which named the technology futurist one of the world's Top 10 influencers. Burrus is the originator of the Anticipatory Organization model, which allows business owners and entrepreneurs to accurately foresee new opportunities, spot growing problems, and understand ever-changing customer needs. Host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart ask...

If you happened to read the March 12, 2021, edition of The Wall Street Journal , you no doubt spotted the profile of Black Rifle Coffee Company , which reported that sales of its weapons-themed roasts and blends almost doubled in 2020 to $163 million. That came as no surprise to host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, who first profiled Black Rifle Coffee and its former Green Beret founder...

In his classic hit, American Pie , released in 1971, songwriter Don McLean intones:  "I went down to the sacred store where I'd heard the music years before but the man there said the music wouldn't play." Every time host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart hears that verse, he's reminded of rock 'n roll concert promoter Barry Fey, who over the course of his three-decade career organized meg...

The landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars has reignited the public's interest in space exploration and possible associated commercial opportunities. Christine Nobbe , an educator, space enthusiast, and past president of St. Louis Space Frontier, has been dreaming about conducting classes on the moon — or perhaps Mars — her whole life. When host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart caught...

Azi Hendi and her husband, Dr. Ali Hendi , now in their fourth year of operations, are the founders of Luminora , a stylish clothing line designed to protect women from the sun's harmful rays. When they were featured on Monday Morning Radio in August 2018, they were still feeling their way as entrepreneurs, aware of the great potential but also strug gling with the realities of being small busines...

Which of the following sentences do you think conveys costly, erroneous "business think"? This is the way we've always done it; no reason to change now. You get what you pay for. We can probably do that ourselves. The customer is always right. The correct answer is "E" – all of the above. As business consultant Jack Quarles first explained to host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart in March...

Sarah Cooper has become a TikTok superstar. Her hilarious video lip-syncs to the voice of former President Donald Trump made her a national celebrity, even serving as a substitute host for Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night ABC talk show. Host Dean Rotbart knew Sarah was special when he interviewed her four years ago about her half-serious, half-humorous book, " 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings...

Fifteen years ago, three college friends holed up in a yurt in Santa Barbara, California, and set about engineering a new sales and marketing software platform designed specifically to help small businesses succeed. Today, Ontraport and its 120-plus employees power thousands of global businesses, and serve as a role model for how any size business can attract and retain high-quality, fulfilled emp...

The global office real estate market – both for tenants and landlords – is in total chaos. Even after the Covid-19 pandemic has passed, America's workplaces will never return to the old normal. Chris Kane , a former senior real estate executive with The Walt Disney Company and the BBC , has reimagined tomorrow's workplace. In his new book , Where is My Office? Chris spells out what it will take to...

Peet's Coffee & Tea , which will celebrate its 55th anniversary this year, has more than 200 retail outlets and is sold in more than 14,000 grocery stores across the United States. The Boston Beer Company , whose best-known brew is Samuel Adams, was founded in 1984 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company produces which produces beers, hard ciders, hard iced tea, spiked sparkling...

How do you say "One Thing" in Chinese? Or Spanish. Or Russian? Since Jay Papasan first spoke with host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart in April 2013, Jay's mega-bestseller, The One Thing , co-authored with Gary Keller, has been translated into 40 foreign languages. The wisdom contained in their book, obviously, is universal. Jay's premise is that everyone should decide on what matters mo...

The lucky children in Mrs. Hassenger's 4th grade class at Brown Elementary in St. Joseph, Michigan, have no idea what a superstar entrepreneur their teacher is. Sarah Hassenger launched her home-based business, Four Black Paws , in 2010, working after school and on weekends to hand-sew the doggie bow ties and related accessories. Since host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart first spoke wit...

Author Jen Sincero has turned being a "Badass" into a mini-industry, incorporating books, audiobooks, notecards, calendars, refrigerator magnets, even a " Badass " talking button. She is also a success coach who helps people transform their personal and professional lives at seminars, speaking engagements, and in newsletters. When host and award-winning reporter Dean Rotbart first interviewed Jen...

After a year in which all of our lives have been turned topsy-turvy, the notion that we can be in full command of our lives going forward may seem fanciful. But Dr. Paul Napper , a renowned psychology expert and business consultant, has developed a science-based approach to living life on our own terms. In his latest book, " The Power of Agency ," co-authored with Dr. Anthony Rao , Dr. Napper outl...

Bill Fox is helping businesses in the United States design the workplaces of the future, from, of all places, his base in Estonia. American-born and educated, Fox is co-founder of Forward-Thinking Workplaces and the author of The Future of the Workplace . With more than three decades of experience in project management and leading successful transformations, he's now focused on helping organizatio...

Matt Murray , editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, describes Joann S. Lublin as relentless, blunt, persistent, honest, collegial, exhaustive, and exhausting. Joann, arguably the nation's top authority on careers and management, is the author of the forthcoming book,  Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life . For the book, she interviewed 86 executive moms and 25 of their gr...

Charles Duhigg is the mega-bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better . His books use masterful storytelling and real-life examples to help readers be more productive, and improve all aspects of their lives. Shortly after The Power of Habit was first published in 2012, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart interviewed him for this podcast. Earlier this month, Dean...

Tim Ringo has some unconventional ideas about how owners and CEOs can inspire greater productivity from their employees and turbocharge their companies' profitability. Among these: hire people on the Autism spectrum, forget about requiring a college degree for job candidates, and use robots to replace employees who hold repetitive, mundane jobs — retraining the displaced workers for better, higher...

Four-time Olympic athlete Ruben Gonzalez likes to recite the Proverb "Iron sharpens iron," in explaining the philosophy of his new Facebook group, the Goal Achievers Club . Launched earlier this month, the group not only relies on Ruben himself for success and leadership tips, it draws on its growing roster of accomplished owners and entrepreneurs to share the wisdom of their experiences. Host Dea...